Now in its 14th season, the Arts Alive! Concert Series presents world-renowned and award-winning musical ensembles and artists. Highly acclaimed for her “passionate intensity and remarkable vocal beauty,” the multiple GRAMMY® Award-winning Isabel Leonard thrills audiences both in the opera house and on the concert stage. She will present an all-Bernstein program with pianist John Arida. Tickets available through the Emens Auditorium Box Office.

By Catherine Trieschmann. Directed by Melissa Baldwin. Fourteen-year-old Laney arrives in Oxford, Mississippi with a twisted back, a mother in crisis and a burning desire to be a writer. When she befriends Maribel Purdy, a fervent believer in the power of Jesus Christ to save her from the humiliations of high school, and embarks on a hilarious spiritual and sexual journey that challenges her mother's secular worldview and threatens to tear their fragile relationship apart.

The multiple GRAMMY® Award-winning mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard will give a master class at Ball State University in conjunction with her Arts Alive! Concert Series performance. Free and open to the public.

Kris Molloy will give a presentation on her country of origin, New Zealand! New Zealand is located in Oceania. Mountainous New Zealand is made up of two large islands as well as Stewart Island. New Zealand’s geography includes glaciers, fjords, mountains, plains, hills, forests, volcanic plateaus, and sandy beaches. The Hobbit andother famous movies have been filmed there.

The Ball State Jazz Ensembles have performed around the world. Come enjoy a night of standard jazz favorites and original compositions for big band. The guest artist is saxophonist Walter Smith III and Mark Buselli directs the ensembles. Tickets available through the Emens Auditorium Box Office.

Artist and activist Mahogany Browne presents her unique brand of performance poetry, which "bridges the gap between lyrical poets and literary emcee." Browne is a co-organizer of Black Poets Speak Out, and her books include Dear Twitter and Redbone (nominated for an NAACP Outstanding Literary Works award).

Dora Lutz, President, Hawks Consulting & GivingSpring will be speaking about her journey in social entrepreneurship where she consults businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies on finding shared value to make the world better.

"In 10000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid we use laser light to scan the surfaces of nucleating and dissipating soap bubble clusters. Unlike ordinary light, the laser's focused beam is capable of crawling through the micro and nanostructures within a bubble's skin. When aimed at specific angles, this penetrating light generates a large-scale projection of molecular interactions as well as the phenomena of non-linear optics. Bubble behaviors viewed in such proximity evoke the dynamics of living cells (the lipid membranes of which, are direct chemical descendants of soap films)."